Data Lineage

Data Lineage - Visibility End to End

Data Lineage isn’t just a technical feature—it’s a foundation for trust, compliance, and operational excellence. By reducing risk and improving visibility, Power BI Sentinel empowers organizations to govern confidently and innovate faster.

See the Full Story Behind Your Data

In today’s data-driven world, understanding where your insights come from—and how they flow through your organization—is critical. Power BI Sentinel’s Data Lineage feature gives you complete visibility into the relationships between datasets, reports, and workspaces, so you can trust your analytics and make informed decisions.

Why Data Lineage Is Critical

Modern analytics environments are complex. Reports depend on multiple datasets, which in turn rely on various data sources. Without visibility into these relationships, organizations face significant risks: broken reports when upstream changes occur, compliance issues from undocumented sources, and wasted time troubleshooting problems. Data Lineage solves these challenges by mapping every dependency in your Power BI estate, so you always know where your data comes from and how it’s being used.

Explore some of the features

Features:

  • See all Datasources being used.
  • View the refresh schedule detail for your datasets in Power BI.
  • View the gateways between datasources and datasets.

This level of enhanced Data Lineage is vital for complete data governance, but cannot be done using Power BI's built-in lineage view. Power BI Sentinel also supports multiple workspaces, including personal workspaces, which is a significant enhancement over the in-house lineage view within Power BI.

Data Source Explorer Menu

Build your own Data Source reports

Power BI Sentinel also exports your full enhanced data lineage to your own Azure SQL database, allowing you to build your own Power BI reports over this data.